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Trump is really fasttracking the downfall of the US of A. Interesting and painful to watch, but maybe a valuable learning experience for the americans. Like WW2 for Germany. Otoh, I really don't want to learn chinese, meh
Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting...
It's unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you're likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.
Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There's no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you're done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.
very interesting, thanks for that!
I definetely wanted him to mess up so his followers would wake up, but he is doing way more damage than I ever imagined, and somehow his supporters still seem to be on board.
There is irreparable damage to the USA it will never recover from, we are watching the fall of a world power as its citizens cheer it on.